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AngerSharkz, now that an "in principle" deal has been brokered it is indeed every member for themselves and by that I mean that every member will be voting for whatever suits them best.
I have no doubt that many delivery posties will be voting against and mathematically it would only take around 63% of the outdoor OPGs to vote NO to completely negate any voting by the indoor members.

I have just read the document from cover to cover. It's 36 pages long and almost exclusively deals with delivery OPGs and ParcelForce (80% of CWU members).
I don't know why the CWU even bothered to involve the indoor staff as there's not much of any interest. In fact the only impact this can possibly have on me and my immediate colleagues are the changes to sick policy however as we are a small unit and generally don't take the proverbial then that's not likely either.

No later start times.
No later finishes.
No annualised hours.
We have been working on a Sunday for years.
When DK says jump we all say "who"?

By the way Scamp. What day is The Iceman coming? We will need to tell Mavis in reception to order a visitor's pass and parking permit.....lol

"Not much point in VESA making an offer unless IDS can get shot of RM."

I thought that the general consensus here was that VESA were going to up their stake to 30%, offer around a fiver per share to existing shareholders, separate GLS as a separate entity and hand the husk of RM back to the UK Government having asset stripped it first?

JB, no need to bother with Zoom meetings any more as the pandemic is over.
The CWU will have their nationwide briefing at Ashton Gate in Bristol on Friday with accommodation, food and travel paid for by branches plus the business will foot the cost of covering the reps, some of whom will require Tomorrow and Friday off due to distance.
Managers will probably convene at The NEC, Birmingham, all expenses paid accommodation, food and travel , again a two day jolly for many. I know that my line manager will take two days as he has a Tesla and the associated worry of range anxiety.

Comrade Newdealz, for someone who hasn't got a clue as to how the industrial relations framework operates within RM you seem very keen to get your non factual viewpoints across here. You also seem rather keen to voice your political viewpoints on the POLY forum and it looks as though some on there are getting tired of your nonsense.
I looked through your posting history last night following your poorly written posts to see if it was just me that was on the receiving end of your trolling.....it wasn't.
You are probably an RT Chatbot designed to spew out garbage on these forums at regular intervals.
I know that you will respond as you just can't help yourself.
Love to Mother Russia and all that......

Newdealz, put me down for both hypocrite and time waster if you want although for someone who is constantly posting about how great Russia is and how the Ukrainian people are wrong on the POLY forum then I think we know which side of the fence you like to sit?
Incidentally, the vast majority of the proposed changes will affect the outdoor OPGs and will have no impact on me personally.

AngerSharkz, the proposals that RM have recently stated were certainly not on the table last May. The offer in December was a big improvement however there was still plenty of fine detail that the CWU were not happy with and needed clarification. It looks as though Thompson could have been a major obstacle to a final agreement as once he was removed things started to happen?

As I posted yesterday, the complete transcript has yet to be released by either side. RM have released a document which amounts to two pages of "highlights" however the CWU have agreed that the full document be released by both sides at the same time.

AngerSharkz, the disagreement has been rumbling on for a year but a "year of strikes"? I hardly think that eighteen days of strike action between the beginning of September and Christmas Eve constitutes a year.
You're correct with your statement that there's a lot of noise on social media from disgruntled delivery staff but the proposed agreement is much better than the original proposals from the business this time last year which was to move the whole operation by up to three hours. This has now been changed to "between 60 and 90 minutes from March 2024 so gives staff the option and time to adjust their schedule or find other employment. Annualised hours has also been pulled back to a maximum of 24 minutes a day in October, November and December and the trade off is a 35 hour week between June and the beginning of October which I think is quite a good idea.

AngerSharkz seems happy with the proposed agreement so that's one tick in the box however I think that Newdealz may be sitting on the fence?

AngerSharkz, yes I think that we do need to agree to disagree on this.
The official RM memo (746941-30) that I am looking at is quite a climb down from the businesses original stance.
Agreed that revisions have and will continue to take place but some of the other proposals for later start/finish times have been revised to a maximum of 60 to 90 minutes from March 2024 plus a commitment from the business of no compulsory redundancies, no gig economy employment model, no outsourcing, no owner drivers in core USO operation, a commitment to full time employment and the shorter working week. Even the seasonal variation has been cut to a maximum of 24 minutes a day at peak/Christmas with a 35 hour week between June and October.

AngerSharkz, the business is in the same situation that it would have been in when Rico Back took over. The BoD had two years during the pandemic to get to grips with the situation and failed miserably which is why they are now panicking.
Yes, I realise that what's happened in the past has gone and can't be undone but will you be saying the same thing when the business also signs up to a bad deal? Will it still be a case of "what's happened in the past" etc?.....

Newdealz, "called you yesterday didnt i"
Called me on what exactly?
You asked if I had sold and I replied that I would be holding until the winter.
I suggest that following your near death experience that you try to calm down in retirement. Perhaps take an extra Ramipril tomorrow morning and monitor your blood pressure?

Newdealz, I would be only too happy for you to put me on filter as you obviously have little idea of what you are talking about. If you could stop replying to me with your semi literate half baked posts then that would be great as well.
Night night.

AngerSharkz, "if you’ve got any suggestions how they’re going to claw back two million pounds a day by this time next year, we’re all ears?"
I don't have any suggestions, and even if I did then I'm pretty sure that the RM BoD wouldn't be interested anyway as it's their business to run and I am a mere payroll number..
I didn't have any part in the negotiations and I believe that Simon Thompson didn't either which is pretty strange as he is the CEO?

AngerSharkz, I haven't mentioned further strike action? I am merely commenting on the two page release from the business and that I cannot believe that the BoD have agreed to it. I'm sure that they have glossed over some parts and, as I have already posted, look forward to reading the complete transcript when it is released.

Newdealz, I'm not sure exactly what you are reading in my posts to make you so agitated? I am not blindly following Dave Ward and am perfectly capable of dissecting and analysing a thirty page document when it is released.
If you re-read my post to AngerSharkz, I am actually agreeing that I cannot see how the business is going to claw back their financial outlay over the next couple of years but the devil will be in the detail of the released full document.
As you have posted "she has got a clue whats going on" then I will assume that she is also capable of reading.

AngerSharkz, exactly..... So a business that is losing a million pounds a day is going to increase their wage bill by roughly a million pounds a day by April 2024? There's nothing in the two page memo that I have seen that even remotely looks like clawing back two million pounds a day by this time next year, which is why the the entire thirty page document needs to be scrutinised as I cannot believe that a business in such dire straits would agree to something that does not rectify it's financial difficulty.

Newdealz, I have seen a couple of different internal memos from RM regarding options a and b however these were two page brief summaries of what is apparently a thirty page document so unless the other twenty eight pages are blank that's a lot of missing fine detail?
The last memo that RM issued stated the following;
Pay
• Increased our pay offer, and extended the offer until April
2025
• Offered two options to the CWU:
• Option A: 10% three year pay deal, plus £500*
2% pay rise from April 2022 (already paid),
6% from April 2023 plus a lump sum of £500*,
2% from April 2024.
• Option B: 10% three year pay deal, plus £1,500*:
2% pay rise from April 2022 (already paid),
2% from April 2023 plus a lump sum of £1,500*,
6% from April 2024.
So, that's a 10% deal over three years which isn't exactly groundbreaking and personally I think that the business will renege on the 6% from 2024 when the planned cost savings fail to materialise over the next eleven months and will claim that it's unaffordable.

Newdealz, "said to her your getting a decent offer in hard times and a lump some."
How do you know that it's a decent offer? To the best of my knowledge the negotiators proposed deal hasn't been released to the wider audience yet but if you have some inside knowledge then please spill the beans.